I did what I enjoy most - hanging out with friends. I was with friends pretty much every day of the break. The first week I just hung out with friends - went to Hamburg, went to the club, simply had fun. Then, for Easter, I woke up to a bag full of candy and the first season of an amazing TV show that I watch often with my host-mom, Fringe. Not to mention the two packages I received from home filled with enough candy to last me the rest of my stay. For dinner we ate at my host-grandmother's house and ate the best thing to have for Easter - rabbit. It was the first time I think I have ever eaten rabbit and was very very tasty. I also had to search for another bag filled with chocolate. I probably have enough junk food now to kill a horse.... and I am planning on eating it all before I go home. On the Monday after Easter, my host-parents and I went to a beach. Well, a beach on the North Sea, which is really more like Stockton Lake in the fact that there is really almost no sand, just mud. But it is always a lot of fun to play in the mud.
The next day I woke up early and got on a train to Minden, which is about four hours away. I went to visit my brother from another mother, Immo. He was an exchange student who stayed with my family last year for half a year. We became very close in that time and I was super excited to see him for the first time in over almost a year. I only stayed until Friday, but those were, without a doubt, the best days of my break. We didn't do much, mainly played MarioKart and went bowling, but just hanging out with him again was amazing. He told me that, if he has time, he will visit me for a weekend before I leave. I really hope that he will have the time.
On Friday, I got back and just chilled. On Saturday, the 30th, pretty much everyone got together and celebrated with bonfires. I don't know why, but the Germans celebrate the beginning of May in this way. They call it the Dance of May. I still don't understand why they do it, but I had fun getting together with some friends and hanging out. Today, I am going to finish up some homework and prep myself for school. I am pretty upset that all of my friends in America only have about 4 days of school left and I still have to go for another month or so.
I was also reminded that I only have about 6 weeks left in Germany. I don't want to believe it. I am still not ready to go home. Well, I am ready to go home, just not ready to say goodbye to Germany and all of my friends. I really cannot imagine a life without them. I have become pretty close with a couple and it will be hard to leave. I don't know why we have to live a world apart. I am lucky that we have today's technology, so it won't be difficult to communicate, but still. And I know that these next 6 weeks will go by really really fast. Next weekend I am going to a concert with some friends in Hamburg. Then I will only have two more weeks of school because during the last week of May I will be in Berlin with the CBYX program. After that I will have about two weeks left, well, most likely only one and a half. I can imagine that half of one will be spent packing, making sure that I have everything I need, hopefully having a goodbye party, etc. I can say that, right now, I am not ready to go home. It is going to be weird, different. But I do hope that, when the time comes, I will be ready. But, whether I am ready or not, I am definitely not looking forward to the almost 20 or so hours of traveling to get back home.
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